This interview with Elliott Carter charts his early years in New York, at Harvard and studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Music featured with the film includes Holiday Overture , Symphony No.1 and String Quartet No.1 .

This second in a series of three interviews with Elliott Carter, filmed at his Manhattan apartment in 2010, two years before his death, focuses on two major scores, the Symphony of Three Orchestras and his opera What Next?